Tim Dodd
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, there's some very, very dark truths in history to the start of the space program, really, yeah.
Yeah.
And, I mean, same with on the Soviet side.
You know, a lot of these guys, a lot of the people building the rockets themselves even spent time in the Gulag.
Like, I mean, it was a –
Yeah, desperate times, I would say.
And this was a leading technology.
Imagine that high ground of space of, you know, imagine like if you have a cannonball or something, you can maybe launch it 100 miles or something, right?
Right, right, right, right.
Cool.
And like, it's not very accurate.
So you might actually, you know, run over a village.
But the Nazis were able to develop the V1 and then the V2.
where they could bomb, you know, hundreds of miles quite accurately and actually hit targets undetected.
You couldn't see.
By the time you saw it, it's too late.
You know, you're done.
You have no defense against this thing.
Imagine that kind of power to be able to, you know, scare your enemies with that.
And as soon as you couple that then with the nuclear warhead,